In the final 13 games of Tufts’ 2013-14 season, the team went 1-11-1, including a 10-game losing streak. The Jumbos lost a talented group of seniors and would only have inexperienced goalies on the roster for the 2014-15 season. Yet, by the end of the year, Tufts was two goals away from reaching ...
The men’s lacrosse team improved its record to 3-0 with a victory at Stevens Institute of Technology on Saturday. The No. 1 Jumbos topped the Ducks by a score of 19-10 in a game that was never close.The trip to Hoboken, N.J. was the first road game for the defending national champions. The Jumbos ...
Due to the sheer volume of viable fantasy outfielders, I will only be discussing several sleepers and busts for your upcoming drafts.Jorge Soler has been discussed for a long time in fantasy circles, but he belongs on my sleeper list because ESPN has him listed as their No. 38 outfielder. I have him ...
Last year, it was Liz Moynihan's (LA '14) desperation 3-pointer at the buzzer in overtime that carried the Jumbos through the second round of the NCAA Div. III tournament, keeping their Final Four hopes alive. While this year's opening rounds at Cousens didn't end with quite the same ...
Tufts' (9-15-2) postseason run concluded at Orr Rink with a close 3-2 loss to No. 9 Amherst (20-4-2). The Lord Jeffs, seeded second in the NESCAC, will advance to the tournament finals for the second straight year, where they will host the fourth seeded Williams Ephs. Even though the Jumbos came ...
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Entering their fourth straight NCAA appearance, the Jumbos will be hosting the Pine Manor College Gators on Friday in the first round of the NCAA Div. III Championship. After a whirlwind of a weekend -- tinged with the loss of senior tri-captain Hannah Foley to injury on Saturday and the defense of ...
This past Wednesday, the women’s lacrosse team improved its record to 2-0 with a win over Endicott. The Jumbos' offense dominated for the majority of the game for a final score of 18-5.In the first half, Tufts went up 7-0 with goals by senior Kate Mackin (four), junior tri-captain Caroline Ross ...
The men's lacrosse team defeated the Keene State Owls 22-16 on Tuesday at Bello Field to improve to 2-0 on the season. The No. 1 ranked Jumbos, behind by two with a minute left in the third quarter, scored nine goals in the fourth quarter to run away with the victory. Junior attack John Uppgren ...
The All-Star break has come and gone, and now teams have turned their focus to jostling for playoff position with approximately twenty games left in the regular season. As much as they would probably deny this, there a select few players who have their eyes on the most prestigious individual regular ...
When sophomore pitcher Kevin Galasso of the Tufts baseball team went for surgery for his lymph nodes last fall, he did not expect to be away from school and from his friends four months later.“I was going about everyday stuff, going for class, going for workouts, [when] I found out that it was ...
After Tufts (9-14-2) shocked the NESCAC world with its 2-1 upset over top-seeded Trinity, the team will move on to face the 19-4-2 NESCAC No. 2 Amherst Lord Jeffs in the conference semifinals.On Saturday, Amherst prevented an upset from Middlebury by defeating the tournament’s seventh seed 3-0. Middlebury surprisingly ...
On Wednesday, the NESCAC announced the 2015 All-Conference Teams and awards for men's and women's basketball. In a surprise to no one, the women's basketball team was well represented after posting an undefeated conference record and winning its second consecutive NESCAC Championship. Senior ...
Craig Kimbrel, Aroldis Chapman, and Greg Holland are clearly the position’s elite, but none of them will wind up on my teams this spring simply because of how early people tend to draft premium closers.The aforementioned three will bring you excellent ratios and at least 90 strikeouts, but I would ...
The men’s squash team entered the 2014-15 season with high hopes of finishing off the season with a higher ranking than its previous one, No. 34. The Jumbos were able to achieve this goal, which can be attributed to the team’s camaraderie, improved practices and hard work on and off the court.“This ...
This past weekend the Jumbos bounced back from their disappointing results in the New England Div. III Championships two weekends ago with impressive performances at the New England Intercollegiate Amateur Athletic Assocation Championships, colloquially known as Open New Englands. The competition, ...
Claiming his second title in as many weeks, sophomore diver Matt Rohrer once again headlined the Tufts effort at last weekend’s NCAA Zone Qualifier meet in Springfield, Mass. Both the men’s and the women’s swimming and diving teams sent a diver to the regional championships, and Rohrer placed ...
The Players' Tribune, a first-of-its-kind media platform whose writers are exclusively current and former professional athletes, aspires to bring "fans closer to the games they love than ever before." They're lying.Gone are the days of journalistic meddling, of careerism, when writers ...
In its season opener on Saturday, the men’s lacrosse team defeated the Middlebury Panthers by a score of 17-10. For the defending champion Jumbos, the game was the first step in its quest to win back-to-back titles.The Jumbos entered the game as heavy favorites as the No. 1 ranked team in the nation ...
Capping off a memorable weekend for Tufts athletics, sophomores Josie Lee and Mason Pulde earned NESCAC Player of the Week honors. Pulde, a goalie on the ice hockey team, is the first Tufts hockey player to win the award this season. Lee, a guard on the women's basketball team, follows senior ...
